South Sudan, created in 2011, fell into civil war in 2013. A new white paper argues that a bottom-up approach to development is one way to make conflicts such as South Sudan's less likely.

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We cannot do development differently by adopting a different set of techniques. Change is political. We must engage with the process of change.

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In 1926, John Maynard Keynes said that "everything is politics, nothing is policies." Has the World Bank has discovered this truth for itself? What does the 2017 World Development Report say about governance, politics and power?

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